Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is heading to Thailand after automobile producer Toyota unveiled its plan for a brand new esports event. Ten groups can be heading to The Toyota Master Bangkok event in late November, the place a $100,000 prize pool awaits.
So far solely one workforce has been confirmed for the nation’s first worldwide CS:GO event, and that’s the Asia Minor Championships winners Renegades, however we do know the Australians can be joined by 9 different groups from completely different areas. Three groups will obtain a direct invite, whereas the remaining six need to safe their locations by way of on-line qualifiers in Europe, North America, CIS, China, South-East Asia, and Thailand, over the course of the subsequent few weeks.
The event will then culminate with the primary occasion on the Indoor Stadium Huamark, which seats about 10,000 individuals, from November 21-25.
“It is an honour and a pleasure to be part of the esports CS:GO competition as esports is currently advancing in the world,” Wutthikorn Suriyachantananon, deputy managing director of Toyota Motors Thailand, says in a press release. “The competition will also be consistent with the Toyota Live Alive concept that supports the new generation and individuals that choose to live their life in their own way.”
It’s not the primary time we’ve seen Toyota enter the esports market both – final 12 months they have been one of many essential sponsors for the inaugural Overwatch League – so this announcement will not be solely good for the CS:GO itself, however for esports too.
And it appears the automobile consultants have executed their analysis on their viewers too. You’ll be glad to know that the entire event can be streamed on Twitch in Thai, Chinese, English, and Russian, so hopefully, the buffering woes many expertise on Facebook can be a factor of the previous.
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